The one thing you NEED to know about the mile high club

The mile high club is a bucket list favourite among the risqué out there. It might sound sexy, finding yourself sat next to a dashing young bachelor for the duration of your long haul flight before the sexual tension gets too much about six hours in, and you just have to have your wily way with him in the aeroplane toilet; but I can't imagine it's all it cracks up to be.

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Mainly because having just spent 11 hours on a plane yesterday, and drinking a hella lot of champagne while I was up there (it's the fear of flying that turns me to the drink) I paid a lot of visits to the plane toilet.

And it's barely big enough to pull up your trousers, never mind get down and dirty with someone else in there.

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But while contemplating what membership of the mile high club would really be like, one British Airways flight attendant stopped me in my tracks, revealing that he had indeed come across several horny couples at 36,000 feet.

This in itself didn't surprise me, but his next nugget of information did: flight attendants have the power to open the toilet doors from the outside. Which is kind of obvious in case of emergencies, if you think about it, but I didn't really consider the fact they could use this function to interrupt couples of getting down to it mid-flight.

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Because how mortifying would that be? You and your partner, enjoying a nice session to the rhythm of the turbulence, all of a sudden being exposed to the world and his wife (well, the queue of waiting passengers) in all your half-naked glory. You'd want to DIE.

And a quick look at Reddit confirms flight attendants from various airlines really do use this privilege to piss on the parade of sky-high lovers. But some of them choose to do it in more creative ways...

"On a flight to Switzerland a couple of years ago, there was a couple who "mile-high clubbed" a couple of times over the course of the flight. The final time was right before breakfast was being served, and the flight attendant had everyone on the plane give them a round of applause for being the most consistent passengers she had ever seen."

"This couple was hanging out with us in the mid-galley, and she kept trying to subtlety get him to go into the bathroom with her. After about 15 mins of dropping hints, she just grabs him and pushes him in. The F/As get a piece of paper and make the sign reading "Welcome to the Mile High Club". We taped it opposite the bathroom that they were in, so it was the first thing they saw when they came out. He saw it, immediately started to laugh, and we promptly gave him a beer. She was a bit mortified at it initially, but eventually laughed it off."

"I dated a Flight Attendant for a while. She said that what they would sometimes do is just unlock the door from the outside and walk away. The couple would then often knock the door open mid-coitus and fall out."